Townshend Bio On Tap

TOMMY CAN YOU READ ME? Harper Collins has acquired legendary Who guitarist Pete Townshend's memoir, Pete Townshend: Who He?, for publication in fall 2012. Townshend called the book “an essential rite of passage… I am lucky to be alive and to have such a crazy story to tell.” The book will be edited by Harper Collins’ David Hirshey. Townshend’s book agent, Ed Victor, also repped Keith Richards’ best-selling memoir Life. When Townshend was involved in a police investigation into child porn in 2003, the guitarist linked it to his work on the book. “I believe I was sexually abused between the age of five and six and a half when in the care of my maternal grandmother, who was mentally ill at the time. Some of the things I have seen on the Internet have informed the book, which will make clear to the public that if I have any comulstions in this area, they are to face what is happening to young children in the world today.” (5/17p)